Conditional Cash Transfers, Female Bargaining Power and Parental Labour Supply
Date issued
Nov 2012
Subject
Labor Policy;
Workforce and Employment;
Conditional Cash Transfer;
Income Support;
Poverty Reduction
JEL code
D13 - Household Production and Intrahousehold Allocation;
I38 - Government Policy • Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs;
J22 - Time Allocation and Labor Supply
Category
Working Papers
Recent empirical evidence has indicated that Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) do not have an aggregate effect on adult labour supply, however little attention has been paid to the role of other intrahousehold dynamics. This paper examines how the bargaining power structure of households affects the parental labour supply response to CCT programmes. We analyse randomized experimental designs from rural areas of Honduras (PRAF), Mexico (PROGRESA), and Nicaragua (RPS), and find that CCT programmes slightly change paternal and maternal labour supply and that this effect depends on the distribution of power in the household.